چمن

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From Persian چمن‎ (čaman).

Noun

چمن • (çemen)

  1. green field, meadow
  2. turf; grassplot

Further reading

  • Karapetean, Petros Zēkʿi (1912), “چمن”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn [Great Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Constantinople: Aršak Karōean, page 287a
  • Pomorska, Marzanna (2013) Materials for a Historical Dictionary of New Persian Loanwords in Old Anatolian and Ottoman Turkish from the 13th to the 16th Century (Studia Turcologica Cracoviensia; 13)‎, Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, →ISBN, page 62
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890), “چمن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 730
  • Stachowski, Marek (2019), “çemen II”, in Kurzgefaßtes etymologisches Wörterbuch der türkischen Sprache (in German), Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →DOI, page 110b

Etymology 2

From Armenian չաման (čʿaman).[1][2][3]

Noun

چمن • (çemen)

  1. caraway, Carum carvi[4] (plant, seed and paste made from seeds used to coat meat)
  2. fenugreek, Trigonella foenum-graecum[5] (plant, leaves, seed and paste from it)
    Synonyms: بوی اوتی‎ (boy otu), بوی تخمی‎ (boy tohumu), بوی چیچگی‎ (boy çiçeği), حلبت‎ (hulbet), حلبه‎ (hulbe)
Descendants
  • Turkish: çemen
  • → Armenian: չա̈մա̈ն (čʿämän), չեմեն (čʿemen)

References

  1. Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “çemen”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı, page 223b
  2. Alkayış, Fatih (2019), “çemen”, in Türkiye Türkçesinde bitki adları [Plant Names in Turkish of Turkey] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Hiperlink Yayınları, page 213
  3. Çınar, Ümüt; Kurt, Teslime (2019), “çemen”, in Mâcirce: a sub-dialect of the Meskhetian Turkish, pages 50–51
  4. Baytop, Turhan (2007), “frenk kimyonu”, in Türkçe bitki adları sözlüğü [Dictionary of Turkish Plant Names] (Atatürk Kültür, Dil ve Tarih Yüksek Kurumu Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınlan; 578), 3rd edition, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 109
  5. Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “چمن”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 188a

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

Related to چمیدن‎ (čamidan, “to stroll, saunter”) and Old Armenian ճեմ (čem, “walk”), an Iranian borrowing. The senses "lawn" and "meadow" perhaps influenced by the Turkic. Compare Turkish çimen.

Pronunciation

  • (Tajik) IPA(key): /t͡ʃaˈman/

Noun

چمن • (čaman)

  1. (archaic) path, allee
  2. lawn
  3. meadow

Descendants

Urdu

Etymology

From Persian چمن‎ (čaman).

Pronunciation

Noun

چَمَن • (caman) m (Hindi spelling चमन)

  1. garden
  2. flourishing place, parterre, verdant

Proper noun

چَمَن • (caman) m (Hindi spelling चमन)

  1. Chaman (a city in Qilla Abdullah district, Balochistan, Pakistan)
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